Volume 85, Issue 4, Fall 2011
Wittgenstein
John H. Whittaker
Pages 529-546
Self-honesty and Grammatical Appeals
One persistent element of Wittgenstein’s philosophical work is his insistence on self-honesty as a condition for doing logical or sense-oriented philosophy.
This gives his work a spiritual weight that is not often appreciated. Yet the connection between self-honesty and logical insights is unclear, and this paper attempts
to clarify it. The paper includes brief introductions to Wittgenstein’s earlier and later thought, along with some religiously relevant examples.